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Title: Just Labs: Half-Pint Edition by Dale C. Spartas, Steve Smith ISBN: 1-57223-217-X Publisher: Willow Creek Press Pub. Date: April, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.78 (9 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Perfect Photo and Story Book For Labrador People!
Comment: For someone like me who has spent countless hours, days and weeks in the company of four or more Labrador Retrievers, this book is a hoot. It takes light-hearted look at Labradors, sharing a bounty of beautiful photographs of man's best friends with us, and looking at the personality traits and character qualities that make them the single most popular breed in America today. Labs are among the most social of canines, yet they are remarkably calm and pacific once they know you. Which isn't to deny the fact that they are very active and energetic, and that anyone who lives with one needs to ensure the dog and he or she spend sopme time outside in vigorous play every day. But as the author tells us, we love labradors because they seem to represent the best and most admirable qualities we happen to admire.
Labradors are amazingly loyal, and are quite keyed into your emotional state and sense of well-being. As a person who sometimes suffers from migraines, I can attest that the dogs seem to reconize my symptoms and key their own behavior from this perception of the way I am feeling, being much more willing to simply take a nap with me than usual, since they seem to understand from past experience that the migraine will dirve me back to bed. They show many endearing and remarkable traits, and we find ourselves amazed by just how intelligent, perceptive, and attractive they are as a species.
Labradors also live almost exclusively in the moment, and are ethusiastic and energetic in their pursuit of fun and frolic. Anyone living in their company can attest to the fact that you are never at a loss for entertainment when your Labrador friend is around, and he or she are happy to just be with you, and are almost oo willing and too anxious to show you just how excited they are to have you around. Coming home after a long day's work means a kidn of instant celebration, with four Labradors jumping, barking, and wall-banging, so glad are they to have me back home with them. Find a human who is that glad to see you, and you have found true love, my friend. Yet it is all here in spades with the Labradors, and this entertaining little book will seerve to amuse you, educate you, and sometimes surprise you with its nuggets of information, parcels of knowledge, and bits of wisdom about just why it is that Labradors rule the roost around my house! Enjoy!
Rating: 5
Summary: Dog photos...
Comment: Ask any photography instructor, and he will say, "I don't want to see any puppy and kitty pictures!" How wrong they are. Dale does a great job of presenting the working Lab in everyday situations, from the field trial to the duck blind and the upland field, and he does it with a great sense of humor.
This book, however, is not a training manual. If you're wondering how to train Labs to do what Dale shows them doing, check out Mike Gould's "The Labrador Shooting Dog". Another great look at working Labs is Paul and Julie Knutsons' "The Pointing Labrador." Both books have great photographs of Labs in action, by the way, and the training techniques to back them up.
Rating: 3
Summary: ... hmmm ...
Comment: I was very much taken by the cover shot when I first saw this book on Amazon, the reviews too, seemed rather encouraging ... when the book arrived, I was expecting the rest of the photographs to be of similar or better quality ... am a little disappointed.
If this is an instructional book on how to raise or train Labradors, quality of photographs would not be so critical ... but its a pictorial book, and for some reason, quite a few of the photographs are missing that little extra ingredient which makes for really good photography ... perhaps if the photos had been more tightly edited, it might have made a difference ... At US$35 the book is not inexpensive, and there are better alternatives around ... just do a quick search, under photography and Labradors.
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Title: 101 Uses for a Lab by Dale C. Spartas ISBN: 1572231319 Publisher: Willow Creek Press Pub. Date: April, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Training Your Labrador Retriever by September B. Morn, Pam Tanzey ISBN: 0764109928 Publisher: Barrons Educational Series Pub. Date: January, 2000 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: What Labs Love by Ed Camelli, Mike Singer ISBN: 0764563203 Publisher: Howell Book House Pub. Date: 09 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
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Title: Labrador Retrievers: Everything About Purchase, Care, Nutrition, Diseases, Breeding, and Behavior (Barron's Complete Pet Owner's Manuals) by Kerry V. Kern, Michele Earle-Bridges ISBN: 0812090187 Publisher: Barrons Educational Series Pub. Date: June, 1995 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Labrador Retrievers by Margaret H. Bonham ISBN: 0028644069 Publisher: Alpha Books Pub. Date: 12 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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